BATTERY CALIBRATION problem!!

so i just finished completeing the last step in the calibration guide, i followed it right out of the box. the last step is charging it to full one last time. as soon as it hit green i unplugged and turned it on, but for some reason the max time it showed was 5 hours, and then like 10 minutes later it dropped to 3:35 and now its back at 4:46?! im barely running anything or doing anything!! what did i do wrong?

I calibrated my battery and got very similar results to that. It seems that the battery reading would show about 7-9 hrs [even more at times] before calibration and only about 4-7 after calibration(I have only had about 6/7 cycles up to that point). Does this mean I should get it checked out by apple?

Turn off bluetooth, turn off keyboard backlight, turn screen brightness down to 50% make sure nothing is downloading right now (or quit utorrent/transmission). Wait for 15 secs. Now what does the battery monitor report?

As previously stated, the battery time indicator is based on the application you are using as a specified time, reflective of the CPU load. It's a better idea just to show the percentage, which gives a more stable, accurate picture of battery life.

The reason it jumps all over the place is because your always doing different things on the computer. For example, if you let something download for an hour, the prediction will be stable. But if you multitask and use multi apps, or multi tabs in a brower, it will jump all over the place. If I were you I'd use the percentage meter, not the "time remaining" meter.

my battery still isnt lasting very long all im running is like utorrent and surfing the web and at times even utorrent off...screen brightness is usually 50% or less....at night its on the lowest and my macbook just eats away the battery....im not even getting the usual 5-6hours people seem to be getting more like 4- 4 1/2....is there something wrong with my battery?!?! should i get it checked?

my battery still isnt lasting very long all im running is like utorrent and surfing the web and at times even utorrent off...screen brightness is usually 50% or less....at night its on the lowest and my macbook just eats away the battery....im not even getting the usual 5-6hours people seem to be getting more like 4- 4 1/2....is there something wrong with my battery?!?! should i get it checked?

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have the screen at 50%, have craigslist up on your browser, close utorrent, BT off

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